The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-02

Mr.. Ouemet, the Superintendent of Educa-
ton in Quebec, is the twenty-fourth child
of the same father and mother and his case
| is not considered remarkable
The halitars are represented in the
/ Dominion Parliament by sixty-five MEM
! bers. They vote as one man, and no matter
| how preposterous their demands may be
they are granted for they are strong enough
to overturn the government. They are, III
fact, the ruling power, and this fact is I'M
utterably CALLING to the English-speaking
| Canadian The latter feels it deep inJus-
tice to be taxed for schools in which the
French language only is taught and in
/ which Catholics not Protestants, are adj
mitted, and this system is building up
wall between the two races. This is seen, as
between the English and the Irish, in this
city. There are Catholic and Protestant
| public schools here. The two have their
own social life, and there are banks In
which all the depOSitors are Catholics. The
visit of William O'Brien has done much to
| widen the breach between the Catholic and
| Protestant Iishmen, and sides have been
| taken by the French and English. Party
| lines have been sunk in the bitterness of
religious fight, and Canada is promised a
political campaign in which the Conserva-
| tives and Liberals will be replaced by
| Catholics and Professionals.
The native of Quebec feels no friendly in
terest for Ontario. The Bluenose of Nova
| Scotia and New Brunswick care nothing
| about the condition of either Quebec or On
| tario Their interests are antagonistic, and
| the native of the maritime provinces feels
| that he has been duped and that his bust
| ness has been ruined to advance the inter
| ests of Ontario and Quebec politicians and
| possibly the aggrandiZement of those pro-
| vinces.
Where bankruptcy is perilously near, con-
| tent is not likely to dwell. Quebec has a
| debt of S25 600. Her land is not mort
| gagged, simply because no one can be found
SO simple as to lend money on land mort
gage. The experiment was tried, but it re-
suited disastrOusly for the lender, as the
mortgage was unable to pay his church
titheS and assessments and his interest also,
and before the lender could step in to secure
| himself the mortgage went to the wall, and
the church, which has prior lien, took the
| assets
Ontario, while in position to mortgage
| her land, is really in worse condition than
Quebec. There are 100000 acres of
| cleared land in Ontario, and Ontario, pays
| three-ffths of the Dominion's taxation.
About three-fifths of the population are
farmers. What is their condition! 1t is
difficult to get the exact amount for which
their land is mortgaged, but it is believed
that the sum will easily reach $50 0O0, 600,
and S120, 900, 900 can be accounted for. The
| farmers interest on the Dominion debt and
| on mortgages amounts to 81 70 per share
while the average rental of the land is only
81 80 per acre. Under such circumstances
| it is hardly to be wondered at that the Onta-
rio farmer is disconnected with his lot, and
is given to talking of the good old times he
| enjoyed under the reciprocity treaty of
1866 with the United States His is GER
tainly in condition to be approached by
any one who will offer him relief His
heavily mortgaged land has been I'M
poverished until the soil has refused
| to grow paying crops of wheat, and for
every bushel of barley he ships across the
imaginary line that separates him from a
country that to him is the most prosperous
in the world he must pay that country in
duty 15c. an acre. The Ontario lumber
man is poor as church mouse He owns
| immense tracts of timber, but it is so far
| from market that for want of railroads he
| cannot often transport it to market in less
than two seasons. Meantime the interest
on his loans from the bank is piling up, and
when he eventually sells his lumber the
profit, for want of speedy facilities and such
a market as the United States would prove,
has been eaten up; his nose sticks to the
grindstone, he looks in every direction for
| relief, but his glance is turned oftenest to
| the United States. In spite of the hold
which party politics has upon the farmer
and the lumberman, the advocates of COM
mercial union hope to draw them into the
fold. But handicapped as the farmer is he
| is prey to party politics. and to such a
| height does political rancor rise that far
mer of Liberal" tendencies has been known
to allow the crop of Tory to perish for
want of help he could have given
Nova Scotia is in quite as bad straits as
! Ontario, if not worse, for Nova Scotia is
| insolvent and asks for better terms from her
| NJ, L :
| condition. Prince Edward Island has OBJ
tanned better terms and British Columbia is
also insolvent. That province, too, is
| heartily sick of confederation. Like New
| Brunswick and Nova Scotia, she claims
| that it is impossible to make the Dominion
a market for the products of the Dominion.
| She cannot afford, her merchants say, to
| pay freight of So on 100 pounds of nails or
s2S5 on the same quantity
| OF sugar. She does not want
| to buy her goods in the Dominion and UNI
derstands that to market her chief products
/ is impossible. Distance and heavy freight
charges wipe out profits. Manitoba also re-
| fuses to give all her trade to the Dominion,
because she can buy to better advantage in
| Minnesota Though 200 miles away, her
| growls can be plainly heard here, particu-
LARRY since the Canadian Pacific railway, a
monopoly in which the Dominion spent
about Sl00000,000, threatening her citizens
and the government of Manitoba propose to
| build competing line to the border Of Min
| nesOta.
That the various provinces of the Domin-
ion do not form happy family is evident
even without looking below the surface A
searching inquiry T'ould probably reveal
| even more unsatisfactory condition of
| things Canadians have been loyal to Eng
land, some from self-interest perhaps, but
the great majority from purer motives, but
when loyalty becomes synonymous with
starvation it is likely to suffer adecline, and
already signs are not wanting that Canadi-
ans are beginning to consider the advisa-
| blllty OF looking after the interests of Canada
first and England some other time rather
than vice versa, as they have done in the
past
Mrs. Cleveland's Influence.
From the Philadelphia Times